The Energon Pub

[procyon]

It's taken about a month and a half (two months if you count the illustration design), but my newest arcade control panel is complete. I thought this community would especially appreciate it, so I wanted to share it with you.

Originally I was going for something more G1 inspired, but I really liked the way Cloud Op and Meg were illustrated as if opposing one another, so I thought they'd make better material for the artwork. Plus they were in matching art styles, so that helped. In the end, I unintentionally made an homage to the old VSX box set ( http://tfwiki.net/wiki/File:Convoy_megatron_vsx.jpg ). The idea for the Matrix came later. So late that the illustration had already been printed without it and I had to order a second one because the idea seemed too good to pass on.

There's a couple of improvements I'd still like to make, mostly about the lighting. I'd like to get the buttons on the Decepticon side to be more of a darker purple, but that will involve finding the right resistor to tone down the red in the LED.

For those who are unfamiliar with this hobby, this is an arcade control panel that hooks up to my PC for the purposes of playing old arcade games in MAME more authentically (as well as other PC games like shooters and fighters which lend themselves well to arcade controls). If you have any questions, feel free to ask.